Jerusalem, Israel recently hosted a 2 day workshop on URBIS - Urban
Biospheres, a collaborative program among partners such the Cornell DNR Civic
Ecology Lab, the Stockholm Resilience Center, ICLEI, UNESCO, and others. Keith Tidball was among thirteen international experts in ecology, biodiversity
management and community engagement, who convened with over 50 key local
professionals to produce strategies for moving forward with an urban biosphere
concept that transcends municipal boundaries and is based on cooperation in the
region. Their work, using Jerusalem as a case study, is currently being
summarized for presentation at the Rio+20 Summit in June. The following are
reviews of the workshop and two pieces on the symbolically important swift (apus apus) including a short film
documenting the Annual Welcome Ceremony for the Swifts at the Western Wall,
which concluded the workshop events:
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